P3D Re: C3D Stereo Television network

[bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a followup to my own posting...

Having watched it for several hours now, my opinion has gone up
a few notches. They are running more or less contemporary films plus
"3-D" Classics - such as 1953s "Motor Rhythm" in which a car assembles
itself. 

The website is

http://www.3d.com

(I'd wondered who it was who had registerd that for some time). 
The frame sequential decoder box for C-Band/videotape runs $250
with 2 pair of glasses - additional glasses run about $30 each.
LCS technology. 

There is a fair amount of investor info and solicitations for
cable companies to carry it. Dunno if frame sequential format
would survive MPEG encoding or not very well - maybe, since its
recordable via standard VHS vcrs (assuming they are not running
some form of Macrovision to prevent recording on the DBS type
18" systems).

The make some questional claims on the decoder box implying that
you can view 2D stuff in 3D - which in a box for $250 I'd be
VERY surprised was true. However, they do have some fairly
good explanations about the difference between true stereo and
3D as used in game terminology. I'm assuming the 2D->3D just
means that they show the standard 2D frames in alternate field
sequential format. (Or maybe they create a stereo window in front
of a flat image - I can't tell since I can't view it). 

The also had a black & white clip with Lloyd Nolan explaining
how to use the "Magic Glasses" in the theater (comparing it to
Polaroid sunglasses) and also Miss USA (or was it Miss America?)
of 1953 which is really a hoot.

I'll see if I can accumulate a list of titles over the next couple
of days which I'll post here. (So far, I've seen "Creeps" - a 1997
skin/monster movie with a really funny outtake after the final titles,
and right now there is a thing with Paul Lemat (very strange - much
of the first reel was filmed from a dog's viewpoint).

If anyone here has the ability to use C-Band AND has some frame
sequential glasses, I'd be very interested to know what you think!

--Bob Wier

       mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
       10:56 PM Monday, July 19, 1999
     Unix/Internet Systems Administrator
    Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
      (currently in Ouray, Colorado)



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